Look at the pictures and try to find the following things: keyboard, laptop, electronic notebook, mobile phone, monitor, mouse, screen. Monitor can be seen in the photo 1. Mobile Phone can be seen in the photo 2. Electornic notebook can be seen in the photo 3. Mouse can be seen in the photo 4. Keyboard can be seen in the photo 5. Laptop can be seen in the photo 6.
Group work. Advantages of computers. Disadvantages of computers To find information, to play games, to be computer “addicted”, to do online shopping, to communicate through social networks but not in a real life, to share photos, to watch films, to share personal information with strangers, to send instant messages, to work via Internet, to spend too many hours in front of the screen.
Gap filling exercise: Emails. Internet, modem, access, e-mail messages, text file,sound file, computer,downloads, attachments. Cindy Lewis is a journalist. She works for Gender, a weekly magazine on the (a) …………………Cindy writes the problem page for the magazine. She has two young children so she doesn’t work in the magazine office every day, she works at home using her (b) ……………………Every morning she checks her (c) …………………………………………………… She switches on her computer and her (d) …………………………………………………… She starts Outlook Express. This is the email programme which Cindy uses. She (f) …………………………………………………… her e-mail messages. She usually receives about 35 messages every day. Most of the messages come from the Gender office, but she also gets messages from friends and colleagues around the world. They send messages to her email address. Sometimes they just send messages with (h)……………………………………… Some friends send longer pieces of writing in a (i) ……………………………………………….., or photographs in an image file or even music in a (k) ………………………………………Cindy can open these ………………………………………………….and see the texts, pictures or listen to the recordings. Cindy’s e-mail address is cindylewis@demon.co.uk. Demon is a company which Cindy uses to (m)…………………………………………………..her e-mail and the Internet. Demon is an ISP, an Internet service provider.